[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH, OSX, Libtool, Macports

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 21/06/2012, at 4:23, Terry Barnum wrote:
>> I think to work around this I just removed spandsp while I built freeswitch (bleh).
> 
> THanks Daniel. Awhile back I was fooling around with the asterisk macport on this work iMac and spandsp-devel is a dependency. I uninstalled the asterisk port long ago but spandsp-devel was still around.

OK.

> So it's all in one place, to get freeswitch to compile on this intel iMac running 10.6.8 with macports installed, I uninstalled the spandsp-devel macport, did a fresh git clone, ran your patch <http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/FreeSWITCH-OSX-Libtool-Macports-td7579970.html#a7580004> to force the use of C in gsm0610_rpe.c, ran the jira patch to correctly select x86 instead of ppc <http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-3992>, ran bootstrap.sh, used your env CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib ./configure and make.
> 
> Now on to actually learning to use freeswitch!

Yes, the real work begins now ;)

>> IMO the "right" solution is to rename spandsp in freeswitch - it has been modified (looking at the git log) so it is really a fork of the original. That is unless those patches get merged back into spandsp and then macports can get an updated one.
>> 
>> The later solution is still pretty bad though unless there is a way to force freeswitch to not look at the bundled version.
>> 
>> There is a similar problem with portaudio although since it has a stable API it doesn't show up. It doesn't however build on OSX (Intel 10.7 anyway) and in the end I hacked src/mod/endpoint/mod_portaudio to use pkg-config to find the right CFLAGS and LIBS to link to it.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance, does the freeswitch includes of things like spandsp and portaudio have to be set globally or can there be separate configs?


I believe it's hard coded into Makefiles and configure scripts :(

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